Ethics & Regulation
Big Tech’s desperate last push at AI regulation
Big Tech companies' Washington lobbyists are making a final push for federal AI preemption legislation that would...
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Other Companies
Startups & Funding
Nvidia joins AI debt boom with $20 billion bond sale
Nvidia is planning its first bond sale since 2021, aiming to raise at least $20 billion. The move reflects broader...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
Schneider Electric, Foxconn Partner to Build Next-Gen Data Centers
Schneider Electric and Foxconn have partnered to build next-generation data centers designed to address AI...
AI Business
Startups & Funding
Salesforce acquires AI customer service platform Fin for $3.6 billion
Salesforce has acquired Fin, an AI customer service platform, for $3.6 billion. The acquisition aims to integrate Fin's...
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AI Agents
Skydio CEO Adam Bry on why Silicon Valley shouldn’t draw red lines for drone use
Adam Bry, CEO of Skydio, discusses the company's autonomous drones and their enterprise applications, including...
The Verge AI
Startups & Funding
Sarvam becomes India’s newest AI unicorn with $234 million funding round led by HCLTech
Sarvam, a Bengaluru-based AI startup, has achieved unicorn status with a $234 million funding round led by HCLTech,...
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Ethics & Regulation
Pokémon Go data helped train AI now linked to military drones
Pokémon Go players' AR scan data was used to train Niantic's spatial AI models, which are now being integrated with a...
The Decoder
Startups & Funding
As AI agents become employees, NewCore emerges with $66M to give them identities
NewCore has raised $66M in funding to address enterprise security challenges posed by AI agents as they become...
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AI Agents
A satellite just learned to find things on its own — here’s what that means
An Earth observation satellite successfully located a target autonomously for the first time in April, demonstrating...
TechCrunch AI
Startups & Funding
Rebellions Aims to Take on Nvidia in AI Inference Chip Battle
Rebellions, a South Korean startup, is developing AI inference chips to compete with Nvidia in the AI infrastructure...
AI Business
AI Agents
Import AI 461: "Alignment is not on track"; FrontierCode; and synthetic research interns
This Import AI newsletter edition discusses the current state of AI alignment, introduces FrontierCode, and explores...
Import AI
Startups & Funding
Rewriting Your Pitch: SaaS Isn’t Dead, But The Playbook For Founders Is Changing
The article discusses how AI and LLMs are transforming the traditional SaaS business model, requiring founders to shift...
Crunchbase News
Startups & Funding
The AI Startup Funding Boom Is Not A Global Phenomenon
U.S. AI startups have captured nearly 80% of global seed through growth-stage funding in 2026, a significant shift from...
Crunchbase News
AI Agents
HarmonyOS 7 steps into the AI gap Apple left open in China
Huawei launched HarmonyOS 7, positioning it as the beginning of the agent era and capitalizing on Apple's decision not...
AI News
AI Agents
Accenture: Consumers show growing trust in AI shopping agents
Accenture's 2026 Consumer Pulse Research survey of 25,590 consumers across 16 countries found that 74% of respondents...
AI News
Research & Papers
Meet Flash-KMeans: An IO-Aware, Exact K-Means That Runs Over 200× Faster Than FAISS on GPUs
Flash-KMeans is an open-source, IO-aware GPU implementation of k-means clustering that achieves significant performance...
MarkTechPost
Ethics & Regulation
The AI layoff wave is becoming a powder keg
As AI companies conduct mass layoffs affecting tens of thousands of workers, a small group of AI insiders is...
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LLM
Z.ai Launches GLM-5.2 With a Usable 1M-Token Context, Two Thinking-Effort Levels, and No Benchmarks at Launch
Z.ai launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, 2026, featuring a 1-million-token context window and two thinking-effort levels...
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Startups & Funding
Orbio raises $21 million to automate hiring and onboarding for frontline workers
Orbio announced a $21 million Series A funding round led by Dawn Capital to support its platform that automates hiring...
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